| | two / both / some / a few / tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty 斤 (old) | HSK 1 |
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| | two (colloquial equivalent of 兩個｜两个) / both / some | HSK 4 |
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| | one's two hands / two prongs (of a strategy) / both aspects, eventualities etc / skills / expertise | HSK 6 |
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| | (idiom) (of two or more people) to take the same action without prior consultation; (usu. used adverbially) all (or both) of them, independently; as if by prior agreement | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to hold or offer with both hands / to sing the praises of / classifier for what can be held in both hands | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) to suffer the departure of sb (talented staff or one's spouse etc) and a financial loss as well; to get burned both romantically and financially | |
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| | both / both of them / neither | |
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| | (idiom) you and me both; that makes two of us | |
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| | lose-lose (situation) / (of the two sides involved) to both be disadvantaged | |
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| | imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨, cutting off the nose 劓, amputation of one or both feet 刖, castration 宮｜宫, execution 大辟 / Han dynasty onwards: whipping 笞, beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns 杖, forced labor 徒, exile or banishment 流, capital punishment 死 | |
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| | both ends (of a stick etc) / two extremes | |
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| | both of them; the two of them | |
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| | to raise aloft with both hands / (of two or more people) to carry sth together | |
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| | excelling both in morals and studies (idiom); top marks for studies and for behavior (at school) / a paragon of virtue and learning | |
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| | two-way / reversible / both sides of the coin | |
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| | to satisfy rival demands (idiom) / to get the best of both worlds / to have it both ways / to have one's cake and eat it too | |
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| | Double First-Class University Plan, Chinese government project to develop both a group of Chinese universities and a group of subject disciplines to be world-class by 2050, implemented from 2017 | |
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| | to both share the limelight / to both have an equal share of | |
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| | beyond the pass, i.e. the region north and east of Shanhai Pass 山海關｜山海关 or the region west of Jiayu Pass 嘉峪關｜嘉峪关 or both | |
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| | lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom) / fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children / sandwich generation | |
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| | lit. able to support both heaven and earth / of indomitable spirit (idiom) | |
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| | lit. knifes piercing both sides (idiom) / fig. to attach a great importance to friendship, up to the point of being able to sacrifice oneself for it | |
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| | fig. with the connivance of both sides / fig. by mutual consent / cf Wu patriot Huang Gai submits to mock beating at the hands of General Zhou Yu to deceive Cao Cao 曹操 before the 208 battle of Redcliff 赤壁之戰｜赤壁之战 | |
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| | fan lobster (esp. species of the genera Ibacus or Parribacus, both belonging to the slipper lobster family) | |
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| | lit. both the palm and the back of the hand are made of flesh (idiom) / fig. to both be of equal importance / to value both equally | |
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| | convex on both sides (of lens) / biconvex | |
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| | the two poles / the north and south poles / both ends of sth / electric or magnetic poles | |
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| | lit. to give each one a flogging of fifty strokes (idiom) / fig. to punish the guilty and the innocent alike / to put the blame on both parties | |
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| | level with one's shoulders / (of two people) both the same height | |
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| | convex on both sides (of lens) / biconvex | |
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| | person and lute have both vanished (idiom) / death of a close friend | |
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| | to amputate one or both feet (punishment in imperial China) (one of the five mutilating punishments 五刑) | |
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| | (of friends or partners) to share both the honor and the disgrace (idiom) | |
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| | a gift of money given by parents on both sides after a wedding, to their new daughter-in-law or son-in-law | |
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| | (literary) children's hairstyle with hair tied into a bun on both sides of the head; (fig.) childhood | |
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